Andy Ruiz has stated that Anthony Joshua was the one who threw a lucky punch that dropped him the third round of their first bout.
Ruiz relieved Joshua of his three titles which he said he did via a “lucky punch sent from the Gods.”
“That was a lucky shot for him, too,” Ruiz Jr told Sky Sports.
“I got lazy. It was a punch in the blink of an eye. I thought: ‘What just happened?’
“I wasn’t that hurt because I wasn’t wobbling. I still had the will and the fire inside of me. I wanted to keep fighting and win the fight.
“Once he dropped me, then got me with a really good right hand, I could eat his punches. Mentally he thought, ‘This guy isn’t going down, what is happening?”
“I had to do everything possible to change the fight, and that’s what I did with the left hook.
“The left hook was a really great shot in the temple. The other times I hit him in the head, he loosened up and got wobbly. I was the better fighter that day because I pressured him, threw more punches and the body shots put him down.”
